[Buddha-l] Buddhism, drug use and LSD

[jkirk]

> Now, to get back to a question undiscussed until now: what about
> 'moderate' drug use? A 'middle way' in mind altering substance use?
> What good reasons are there to approve or decline getting high from a
> Buddhist point of view?
>
> Stefan
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Has there ever been "a" Buddhist point of view on mind bending substances?
One thinks of some of the famous Zen monk poets who drank wine, of some
schools' transmutation of sexual bliss into transcendent bliss, etc. Sex is
also
a mind altering experience, no?
Perhaps this is a question that has to be settled on a personal basis, aside
from the clear fifth precept about refraining from intoxicants (which has
been extended at some point in time to other mind benders)--I don't see how
anything could be more clear than that. But, is there any commentary on the
fifth precept that explores the parameters?
Joanna